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Published: January 25th 2013
We weren’t sure if we were going to visit Laos on this trip or not, as we had been before in 2010 and while we liked it, the country didn’t ‘wow’ us. However, we wanted to experience the slow boat from the Thai border and as we were in Northern Thailand with our visa about to expire, we thought ‘why not give it another chance?’. After 2 days on the slow boat we found ourselves in the U...
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Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil
Flat tyres!
Ha, Lao tuk tuks must have very flimsy tyres - we remember getting a flat tyre doing the same journey to the falls back in 2007! We are quite shocked at the prices you are quoting, it did used to be a lot cheaper than that - especially the restaurants. Huge groups of Chinese tourists seem to now be the norm for the whole of SE Asia and is a possible explanation for increasing prices. If we remember correctly though, most things in Laos are imported from Thailand, so as prices for things there have increased it has probably had a knock-on effect on Laos.